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Mount Hope Cemetery

 
 
Mount Hope Cemetery Marker image. Click for more information.
Photographed by William Fischer, Jr., January 5, 2024
1. Mount Hope Cemetery Marker
National Register of Historic Places Registration Form:
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Inscription.

This property
is listed in the
National Register
of Historic Places

by the United States
Department of the Interior

 
Topics. This historical marker is listed in this topic list: Cemeteries & Burial Sites. A significant historical year for this entry is 1838.
 
Location. 43° 8.053′ N, 77° 36.834′ W. Marker is in Rochester, New York, in Monroe County. It is in Highland. It is at the intersection of Mount Hope Avenue (New York State Route 15) and Ravine Street, on the left when traveling north on Mount Hope Avenue. Touch for map. Marker is at or near this postal address: 791 Mount Hope Avenue, Rochester NY 14620, United States of America. Touch for directions.

Regionally, this marker is in Upstate New York, specifically in Western New York, and in the Finger Lakes. It is also in the American Northeast, on the Great Lakes, and in the Mid-Atlantic. Globally, it is in the North Atlantic Region, North America, the Western Hemisphere, the Western World, and the Anglosphere. Historically, it finds itself in what was once the Haudenosaunee (Iroquois) Confederacy, New Netherland, and one of the original Thirteen
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Colonies.

Other nearby markers. At least 8 other markers are within walking distance of this marker: Susan B. Anthony (about 500 feet away, measured in a direct line); Nursery Office (approx. 0.2 miles away); Helen Pitts Douglass (approx. Ό mile away); Anna Murray Douglass (approx. Ό mile away); Frederick Douglass (approx. Ό mile away); Highland Park (approx. Ό mile away); Trophy Cannon (approx. 0.3 miles away); Douglass Home (approx. 0.3 miles away). Touch for a list and map of all markers in Rochester.
 
Also see . . .  Mount Hope Cemetery. Wikipedia entry (Submitted on March 22, 2024, by Larry Gertner of New York, New York.) 
 
Mount Hope Cemetery NRHP Marker image. Click for full size.
Photographed by William Fischer, Jr., January 5, 2024
2. Mount Hope Cemetery NRHP Marker
On center pillar of the cemetery's North Gate
Mount Hope Cemetery's 1874 Gatehouse image. Click for full size.
Photographed by William Fischer, Jr., January 5, 2024
3. Mount Hope Cemetery's 1874 Gatehouse
Adjacent to the North Entrance
 
 
Credits. This page was last revised on March 22, 2024. It was originally submitted on January 24, 2024, by William Fischer, Jr. of Reynoldsburg, Ohio. This page has been viewed 395 times since then and 31 times this year. Photos:   1, 2, 3. submitted on January 24, 2024, by William Fischer, Jr. of Reynoldsburg, Ohio.
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